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From: Mark K. K. <tux...@cb...> - 2005-07-17 08:05:53
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On Sat, 16 Jul 2005, Bill Kendrick wrote: > On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 11:52:25AM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > > > > You certainly can't rely on being able to install for > > all users. That only works when the user is an admin > > or when filesystem and registry permissions are wrong. > > Point taken. Maybe I assumed they were talking about installing it _as_ the > admin user, and then none of the other users having the program in their > menu. Of course, I have no setup on which to test this myself. :^/ > > Shall I close the bug? Or was my assumption correct? Thx! :) No, don't close it yet... The installer needs to be modified to check whether it's being installed as an admin, then provide an option to install for all users along with an option to install for a single user. It's a hassle for an admin to install programs like Tux Paint for all users without the option to install for all users. If the directory or registry permissions are incorrectly set, that's a bigger problem that the admin should fix. That's not a problem that an installer should deal with any more than it is for an installer to do a disk integrity check before installation. Let's leave those for the admin and the fix-it tools to deal with, and make the Tux Paint Installer provide the installation options that other tools cannot be used to provide. My late-night 2 cents. -Mark -- Mark K. Kim AIM: markus kimius Homepage: http://www.cbreak.org/ Xanga: http://www.xanga.com/vindaci Friendster: http://www.friendster.com/user.php?uid=13046 PGP key fingerprint: 7324 BACA 53AD E504 A76E 5167 6822 94F0 F298 5DCE PGP key available on the homepage |
